Monthly Archives: October 2018

Huge responsibility for the world

Saw this just now. Seems Canada has a huge responsibility for the world’s remaining biocapacity. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/31/five-countries-hold-70-of-worlds-last-wildernesses-map-reveals Five countries hold 70% of world’s last wildernesses, map … www.theguardian.com A Xikrin woman walks back to her village from the Cateté River in Brazil. Photograph: Taylor Weidman/Getty Images Just five countries hold 70% of the world’s remaining untouched […]

Don’t despair: the climate fight is only over if you think it is – Rebecca Solnit, The Guardian

Best optimistic article after IPCC Report! Don’t despair: the climate fight is only over if you think it is Rebecca Solnit, The Guardian Link to the whole article After the panicky IPCC report on climate change, it’s easy for pessimism to set in – but that would be conceding defeat. The future hasn’t already been […]

The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards a Greener Future

The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards a Greener Future Boyd, David R. [ https://ecwpress.com/products/optimistic-environmentalist ] A hopeful, inspiring, and honest take on the environment Yes, the world faces substantial environmental challenges — climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the surprisingly good news is that we have solutions to these problems. In the past 50 years, a […]

Climate change: Five cheap ways to remove CO2 from the atmosphere

New assessment from the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. This US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine: Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration – A Research Agenda (2018) Spread the word

Photos – DEEP RESILIENCE: 23, 24 and 25 October 2018 – Day 1

This very successful presentation was finished yesterday. All the photos from this event are posted here and can be used for free, with just one condition, let everybody know where they were taken! Spread the word

DEEP RESILIENCE: Our “Hotter, Wetter, Wilder” Challenge – Day 2

Day two of the conference started with Elliott Cappell, Chief Resilience Officer for the City of Toronto and continued with TD Insurance representatives talking about various responses to climatic uncertainty and catastrophic events. Day was very successfuly concluded with Dr. Blair Feltmate, head of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at Waterloo University and Dan […]

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Use, Management and Conservation of Buildings of Historical Value 14 & 15th, November 2018, Hofburg, Vienna, Austria

Just in case anybody is interested. I have received  an invitation: 7th European Congress on the Use, Management and Conservation of Buildings of Historical Value 14 and 15th, November 2018, Hofburg, Vienna, Austria Spread the word